Search results
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- Booth Tarkington, Grant Gordon
- 1914
Mar 3, 2018 · Penrod's father was an old-fashioned man: the twentieth century had failed to shake his faith in red flannel for cold weather; and it was while Mrs. Schofield was putting away her husband's winter underwear that she perceived how hopelessly one of the elder specimens had dwindled; and simultaneously she received the inspiration which resulted in a pair of trunks for the Child Sir Lancelot, and ...
Summary. Penrod, who would rather hide in the haystall writing bloody adventure stories, is obligated to appear in a children’s pageant as the Child Sir Lancelot. To further his humiliation, his ...
Accessed 14 October 2024. Penrod, comic novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1914. Its protagonist, Penrod Schofield, a 12-year-old boy who lives in a small Midwestern city, rebels against his parents and teachers and experiences the baffling ups and downs of preadolescence. Tarkington expertly conveys the speech and.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Stripped to his underwear, he had been made to wash himself vehemently; then they began by shrouding his legs in a pair of silk stockings, once blue but now mostly whitish. Upon Penrod they visibly surpassed mere ampleness; but they were long, and it required only a rather loose imagination to assume that they were tights.
Penrod is today a lesser-known American boy literary hero. But what wonderful Americana the Penrod novels are! The 1914 book, Penrod. was written by Booth Tarkington. It chronicled the travails of an American boy, duely outfitted in knickers--usually buckled above the knee. Penrod is confronted with the normal trials of pre-World War I American ...
People also ask
What did Penrod wear on his legs?
What is Penrod?
Did Penrod wear tights?
Why does Penrod wear a flannel underwear?
What did Penrod say?
Why did Penrod have a cryptic or emotionless face?
Penrod Schofield at twelve wears "an expression carefully trained to be inscrutable." This is the face presented to the adult world, and is a necessity for a boy who is part conman, part showman. Childhood is amoral, Tarkington believes.
